The Mind Parasites (Paperback)

from amandrake

I didn't come close to finishing this book, which is rare for me. It reads like the ramblings of a someone with a cliched case of paranoid schizophrenia who knows that SOMETHING IS GOING ON, and the smugness of his special knowledge/place in the world started to wear on me pretty quick. I wonder ...

from RandyStafford

My reaction to reading this book in 2005. "Preface" -- Wilson recounts his history with Lovecraft. His first encounter was entirely provoked by the similar title of a Lovecraft collection The Outsider and Others with his own first work, the non-fiction The Outsider. Wilson initially found Lovecra...

from John99999999

This was an excellent book examining the premise that since the 1800's/1900's there has been some form of energy being stifling mankind's creative energies through physical/material diversions. It goes through a lot of philosophy but the story, although fictional, it seems to make perfect sense. ...